So I did the math part of Construct 7 with a few math majors I know, including myself. These are people who are in Calculus 3 or higher in college.

They do not play FFXIV so I just did the math part and mimicked it. I gave each of them one of the HP numbers and told them “....divide by 3” or whatever. I then had cards set out for each pool Construct 7 makes.

Out of 6 people this happened

-First, all were confused by the word “divide” they thought thy had to divide their number by the one I said and get that card. So obviously some numbers were impossible.

-Then when I said it does not actually mean to divide it, one person thought of “divisible” in the next minute and got the answer right. They had a 4 and I said “divide by 3.” They chose the 2 card to get 6, which is divisble by 3.

-After the other figured this out, I tried Prime. Surprisingly, they all thought 1 was a prime number, which I often mistake on occasion also. So we had a fun talk about the definition.


Simple math, but even math majors got stumped for a few minutes.